Caledonia Golf and Fish Club - Myrtle Beach, SC

Of all the "plantation golf courses" in the Carolinas, Caledonia Golf and Fish Club in Myrtle Beach may be the finest, at least among those clubs the non-aristocrats can get into.

A canopy of ancient live oaks envelops you as you make the drive up to the antebellum clubhouse, and from there it just gets better. The course is routed through some of the best terrain in the lowcountry, wild and beautiful, as befits a site where hunting and fishing has been going on virtually undisturbed for centuries.

Little bits of history are scattered around: the old fish shed, photos of long-ago sportsmen holding up their fresh catches, foundations and chimneys of plantation houses long gone, 200-year-old bricks brought over as ballast from England, now used in retaining walls and steps.

"To me, it's 'Gone with the Wind' with golf," said John Springs, general manager of Caledonia and the nearby True Blue. "It's on a piece of property my family had when I was a young boy, and I grew up hunting and fishing there. I had, personally, one of the finest duck blinds around 100 yards from the clubhouse."